Chords for The Dutchman-Makem & Clancy and Schooner Fare

[C] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] Listen, I'd like you [A] to welcome onto the stage [E] with us Tom Rowe,
_ [N] _ _
_ _ [C] Ande [F] Bay, _ the Romanov brothers Steve and Chuck.
_ [Db] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ They are Russian-Irish.
[F] _ _ _ [D] _ Now this is the whole East Coast contingent here.
_ [B] New England for your life.
_ _ [Bm] _ The boys are from Maine, we're from New Hampshire. _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] Listen, I thought before [D] we got rowdy,
[F] _
[B] which could very easily happen later [C] on, _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I'd like to sing at least one little quiet [D] song.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Am] _ Okay, good.
[Fm] _
_ _ [C] _ We just finished a six-week tour over in Ireland,
_ [Bb] _ [C] and one of the most popular songs that we sing
_ is a song that I heard in a [Bm] _
[C] little backstage _ dressing _ [F]
room in Chicago many years [C] ago. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ A song called The [G] Dutchman, [C] but it's universal. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
By the way, the character in this,
not the old man himself, but his wife Margaret,
is one of my favorite characters out of all the people in the songs that we sing.
_ Mainly because in the [N] cold of the night,
she always puts a little whiskey in the Dutchman's tea.
_ And to me, that is the essence of a love song right there.
_ _ [Bm] _ The song tells of one day in their lives from early morning until late at night. _
And the chorus, straight out of one of the old man's mad reveries,
if you can get it, sing it with us nice and quiet. _
It says, let us go to the banks of the ocean,
[N] where the walls rise above the Zyder Zee. _
Long ago I used to be a young man,
and dear Margaret remembers that [C] for me. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Dutchman is none kind of man,
keep his thumb jammed in the [Dm] dam,
the cold [D] is his dream.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] That's a secret [C] only Margaret knows.
_ _ _ _ When Anselm's dam was golden,
in the morning Margaret went.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [E] She believes, [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] he thinks the tulips bloom [C] beneath the snow. _
_ [F] He's mad as he can be,
[G] but Margaret [C] only sees that [Am] sometimes. _
[F] Sometimes she sees her [G] unborn children in [C] his eyes. _ _ _ _
[Dm] Let us go to [G] the banks [C] of the ocean,
_ _ [F] _
where the walls [G] rise above the [C] Zyder _ _ _ Zee.
[F] Long ago _ [G] I used to be [C] a young [Am] man,
_ [G] and [Dm] dear Margaret [G] _ remembers that [C] for _ me. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Dutchman still wears wooden shoes,
his cap and coat are patched with love.
[Dm] _ _ [D] And Margaret's old age,
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
sometimes he thinks he's still in [C] Rotterdam. _
_ _ _ He watches tugboats down canals and calls out to them,
when he [Dm] thinks he _ [D] knows the [A] captors.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Till Margaret comes to take him home [C] again, _
_ through _ [Dm] unforgiving streets,
[G] a-trippin' [C] though she holds his arm.
[Am] _ _
[F] Sometimes he thinks that [G] he's alone and he [F] calls her [C] name. _ _ _ _
_ Let [Dm] us go [G] to the banks of [C] the [G] ocean,
_ [Am] _
_ where [F] the walls [C] rise above the Zyder _ _ Zee.
_ [F] Long ago [G] I used to be [C] a young [Am] _ man,
[F] and dear Margaret _ [G] _ remembers that [C] for me. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And the windmills swirl the winter in,
she winds his muffler tighter,
_ _ [Dm] they sit in the kitchen.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] And the tea with whiskey keeps [C] away the dew.
_ _ _ He sees her for a moment, _ calls her name,
she makes his bed of [Dm] humming some [D] more love songs.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [G]
She learned it when the tune was [C] very new.
_ _ _ They hum [F] the line or two, [G] they hum together [C] in the night.
[A] _ _ [Am] _ [F] Dutchman falls asleep [G]
and Margaret blows [F] the candle [C] _ out.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Let us go to [G] the banks [C] of the ocean,
_ [A] where _ [F] the walls [G] rise above the [C]
Zyder _ _ _ Zee.
[F] Long ago [G] I used to be [C] a young _ [Am] man,
[Abm] and [F] dear Margaret [G] _ remembers that [C] for me.
Rise it with us once.
_ Let [F] us go to [G] the banks [C] of the [Em] ocean,
[Am] _ _ where [G] the walls rise above [C] the Zyder _ _ Zee.
_ [Am] Long [Dm] ago [G] I used to [C] be a [Em] young [Am] man, _
and [F] dear _ Margaret [G] _
remembers that [C] for me. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _